E. E. Cummings wrote . .

. . Uppercase  lowercase

How is it you jump in with . .

. . e. b.  Lowercase

she fixed him with a look that she thought might have looked like Medusas

It needs work

You’re frustrating. Can we agree it's E. E., either upper or lower . . not E. B.

e. b. lowercase as e. e. usually is to my perception

e. b.?

Yup eager beaver cumming

                               Creamy 

OhmyGod. 

            Can’t for a moment you pull your head out of the gutter?

I like to think of it as a cunt antherefore no definitely definitively not In up to my ears Anlets remember it wasnt me who brought us to this trough to slop Cant load ancock anthink I wont pull the trigger

                                                                                           You were going to The Enormous Room werent you

her shoulders fellhead tilted to a side You know it?

I own it 

          Where is it

It’s in storage.

My lifes in storageYES

When did you read it?

Before high schoolHell before Junior High

Why?

Why woud I read a book or poetry

                                     I was a paperboy I read the news I was curious Got to admit e. e. lowercase sticks out like a sore thumb

Have you read it

I only just heard about it.

Read e. e. the same time I settled in to read Madox Ford Madoxs Good Soldier Hemingways Farewell to Arms My grandfather fought in the war He died before I was old enough to talk with him about his experiencesnot necessarily his war experiences but his thoughts My Christian name is his I figured if I read the books I coud fashion a kind of understanding of him

Seems those books would have been a heavy lift.

No Baldwin was a heavy lift

                               Im not black or homosexual which was the predominantprevailing tag Youre it of the day asif ones sexuality mattered  Imagine  the American Psychiatric Association didnt declassify it as a mental illness until ’73

You . . a bit precocious?

No  Curious

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Tell me a story Story   Y yah  When we first met your told me it was IE Storie   yah

   So it is Y IE i-e i-e i-o  Ya recall  there was a farmer

she looked perturbed

He had a dog an Bingo was its name O

she didnt smile

which didnt bother him

he wasnt interested in her

he saw him approach from across the bar she had a bottle of wine at the tablehe asked if hed like another drink he did

sitting down he saw StorysStories expression

                                               What did I miss? his ask wasnt specific

he wasnt going to say

Nothing. StoryStorie said

I ask because you look . . miffed . troubled?

No.

Coudjustbe her bitchy resting face he started to laughthey didnt Awcomon youve heard thaseentha the chick from AT&T commercials  no expressions cold fish

                                             NO Its funny

Shall we change the subject Sex

Sex? he asked

he looked perturbed

StoryStorie followed his lead

I wanna get the three nonos out on the table so we coud either elaborate on them or go onto other subjects  Im the third wheel here  However if yawere to ask Id say I was the third rail  live rail live wire  lively wired

Want me to go first

Ill go first

How many people would you saynot thayave kept count yave known biblically

Ohfor Christ’s sake. he muttered

Really? she asked

  Yah  An because I asked Ill say first Very few

StoryStorie

I’m not saying, I think you’re being ridiculous.

Yacoudave saved us this ifya told me a story We coudave caught Bub up in no time               

You just call me Bub?

I did Im being provocative Seems StoryStorie doesnt wanna play  Howbout you

I’m not going to say either.

  No   Okay  Then Ill close out the sex portion of this conversationthink ifyawanna scorch politics or religion next

Ive known few women biblically  Im not keen on the missionary position

JesusChrist.

Religion next  he was enthused

You'll excuse me please, I have to go to the ladies’ room.

she went to stand he stood

Why are you standing?

When a woman goes to standexcuses herself gentlemen rise Im unlike your date

standing Thank you. In more ways than . .

. . Him  In many more ways than one

she left

he sat

         Whacha got Bub  I toldya I aint a good wingman 

No you’re not.

1448,  ReggaeFriday,  18  2. 22

1134,  Monday,  1  8. 22

Bitchy Resting Face  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XinArKp_6fs

Nauh

 Nauh nauhno   not now  No not now Ive got too much to do yetgot no time to die . . .

    one needs Lifes juice in order to complete projects startedprojects midway  nearing their end

its not I donwanna die  which is inevitableknownunderstood

its I got this one thing to finish Please lemme finish it 

                                                       hed beg get down on his kneesbow his head plead make a fool out of himself

whatever it took

                  Pleease pleease . . .

Death is ruthless

itd shake its head understandingly actACADEMY AWARD performance like it gave a shit tilting its head to one side an act of earnest consideration slyly wink at the mute collectedcrowding greyshadows and blackghosts

Pleease . . .  falls on deaf ears

                                 As yasaid  Nauh   Gotta go yare holding up the line

It was worth a shot

  

2029,  Sunday,  31  7. 22

1018,  Monday,  1  8. 22

Del Shannon  Runaway  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S13mP_pfEc

Burial  Dog Shelter  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSTv1WjHBn8